Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers, agriculture now ranks as seventh among the state's sources of personal income. ¶Farmers are especially sensitive to the inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union corruption, and this may well be a sleeper issue working in the Republicans' favor. Yet in Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, the labor issue has been somewhat offset because right-to-work proposals appear on the ballot-to the distress of Republican candidates and the delight of Democrats, because right-to-work prompts organized labor to spend vast amounts of money in registration drives that...
...Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council yesterday declared itself in favor of continued University participation in the National Student Association...
Speaking in favor of the N.S.A., Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. 5G, former vice-President of the International Student Association, listed four areas in which the organization's efforts are beneficial to Harvard. He cited the area of academic freedom, the bringing of students from behind the Iron Curtain to U.S. campuses, work done for integration and racial equality, and the area of student government relations with the University...
Into Budapest streamed delegates from the Communist musical world to honor Hungary's late great Bela Bartok, once dismissed as a decadent "formalist," but restored to Red favor two years ago. The hit performers of last week's festival turned out to be not Communist musicians but a clutch of wandering Americans: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the men of the Juilliard String Quartet...
...pieces of the 18th century, whose size and grace blend well with contemporary furnishings. Most popular are the Louis XV and Louis XVI chests, tables and chairs; their light-colored woods look well in small apartments. Canny British buyers are turning for good investments to the darker, out-of-favor British oak and walnut of the early 19th century. U.S. bargain hunters have been shopping for early Americana...